LONDON (AP) — A judge has sentenced a cast member of the “Harry Potter” films to 120 hours of community service for growing marijuana.
Twenty-year-old Jamie Waylett, who plays school bully Vincent Crabbe in the magical movie franchise, pleaded guilty to producing the drug at a court hearing last week.
Prosecutors said police found 10 marijuana plants growing in a bedroom at Waylett’s mother’s house in London.
Producing cannabis carries a maximum 14-year sentence. Judge Timothy Workman said Tuesday that he accepted that the cultivation was on a small scale and for Waylett’s own use.
He said the actor had been, “until now, a man of good character.”
Well, no jail time, no suspended sentence, no probation, just five days of community service. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the United Kingdom…
(Mayo Advertiser, Ireland) A married father of four, whose children range in age from nine to one, was given a suspended sentence at Ballina District Court on Tuesday after he was detected cultivating two cannabis plants as well as having cannabis resin in his possession.
Judge Mary Devins said to the defendant “you just don’t care about your children”, as the children could easily have reached the shelf where the cannabis was stashed or have opened the back door. Timlin said that his children did not have access to the back of the house and would therefore not have come into contact with the plants.
The unemployed man was convicted and fined €500 for the cultivation of the plants and sentenced to prison for three months, with the sentence suspended for 12 months on the condition that no convictions were recorded under the misuse of drugs act. For the possession of the cannabis Timlin was convicted and fined €200. Judge Devins told the defendant to “put your children first and yourself second in the future”.
(South Devon Herald-Express) A SCAFFOLDER who turned his loft into a ‘cannabis fortress’ is being sought by police after a court issued an arrest warrant for him.
Ashley Tierney, 21, failed to turn up at Exeter Crown Court to say why he had breached a suspended prison sentence with an unpaid work requirement imposed last November after he admitted cultivating cannabis.
Officers found 17 plants which would have yielded some £12,000 of cannabis.
Tierney was given a four-month prison sentence suspended for two years and told to do 120 hours’ unpaid work in the community after the court heard the crop was for his own use.
Funny how people who aren’t Harry Potter actors seem to get suspended prison sentences for their personal cultivation of cannabis, isn’t it? I’m not saying that Jamie Waylett should go to jail for growing cannabis; nobody should. I just find it interesting how courts find cannabis far less dangerous to society if you’ve appeared in a movie.
that judge is alco anyway http://judgemarydevinsisalcoholic.blogspot.com